Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:
- an article about how the “Federal Circuit was thrown for a loop Wednesday in a case that asked whether the holder of an exclusive patent license could sue for infringement another company that could have acquired a license for the same patent by other means”; and
- an article discussing how the “U.S. Supreme Court . . . dismissed a petition asking the Court to revisit and clarify its seminal holding in Alice v. CLS Bank.”
Nadia Dread wrote an article for Law360 about how the “Federal Circuit was thrown for a loop Wednesday in a case that asked whether the holder of an exclusive patent license could sue for infringement another company that could have acquired a license for the same patent by other means.” According to Dread, one Federal Circuit Judge “call[ed] the court’s case law on the matter ‘very muddled.'”
Eileen McDermott authored an article for IP Watchdog discussing how the “U.S. Supreme Court . . . dismissed a petition asking the Court to revisit and clarify its seminal holding in Alice v. CLS Bank.” McDermott notes how the “petition stems from a . . . Federal Circuit ruling upholding a district court’s grant of summary judgment that certain claims of Ficep Corporation’s [patent] were patent ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101.” The case is Ficep Corp. v. Peddinghaus Corp.